Conference Kingpins: KU and UK Collaborate for 116 Regular-Season Crowns

March 8th, 2021 - 12:16

Baylor can brag about bagging its first regular-season conference championship since 1950. Southern California came close to securing its first such outright crown since 1961 but was denied by Oregon. Their fans may have thought things were bad over the decades, but just remember, there are fools out there who actually care about the gender of a plastic toy potato and want a grade school kid to be able to choose his or her gender while not allowing an individual's parents to select what school he or she attends.

By any measure, the 2020-21 season has been unusual. One of the odd traits was none of the schools with more than 25 regular-season major-college conference championships captured such a title this campaign. It shouldn't be any surprise that league titlists Kansas and Kentucky are accustomed to capturing conference crowns as each school has won more than 50 regular-season league titles. The Jayhawks lead for most championships, collecting 62 regular-season conference titles in their illustrious history despite having a streak of 14 straight Big 12 titles come to a halt two years ago. KU and UK are atop the following list of schools with more than 25 regular-season major-college league championships:

*WKU's total is 42 if include 14 titles won in the KIAC/SIAA in the 1930s and 1940s. All current members of the SEC (except for Arkansas) previously were in the SIAA and six ACC members comprised a portion of the former alliance.